This is a good time for the tech peripheral and accessory world. This year’s edition of CES has seen tons of exiting announcements from tech brands all over the world. Logitech joins the list by launching the G435 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset.
This is Logitech’s new headset announcement, almost two years after the release of the popular Logitech G Pro and G Pro X headsets.
Logitech G435 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Headset
The G435 headset weighs just 165 grams, and is the lightest headset every made by Logitech, as per their claims. In comparison, the G Pro and G Pro X headsets weigh almost 300 grams. The G Pro headset are pretty lightweight headsets compared to industry standards. In that sense, the G435 at 165 grams seems almost half the weight of the G Pro and G Pro X. That would make these one of the lightest wireless headsets in the industry.
The loss of weight doesn’t come without its trade-offs though. The G435 uses a 40mm driver, which is 20% smaller of the G Pro’s solid 50mm driver. Smaller drivers means lesser power, depth and fidelity. This is all purely theoretical analysis, we can only truly know the impact of the size reduction when we take these babies out on a spin.
A sustainable set of cans, if you may
“G435 is the most sustainable gaming wireless headset we have produced to date” says the Logitech press release. I was interested to know what they meant by this statement. Apparantly the Logitech G435 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Headset is made with “high-quality carbon offsets” to “reduce the carbon impact of the product to zero.” This is just corporate talk and there is nothing remotely got anything to do with being sustainable. Carbon offsets are sold and purchased like a commodity and they have no real ground-level impact.
Apart from that, Logitech claims that the plastic they’ve used contains 22 percent post-consumer recycled content. Most plastic products these days use roughly the same ratio of post-consumer recycled plastic. This is pretty much default practice of the plastic moulding industry, it wasn’t even worth mentioning. Next, Logitech says their G435 headset uses paper from “FSCTM-certified forests.” Whatever that means, cutting down trees is cutting down trees, certified or not.
I don’t have a problem with Logitech in particular, I actually love the company, because they make great products. I think Logitech should stick to making good products and keep its integrity intact by not trying to appeal to sustainable wokes with these half-hearted measures that don’t mean anything in reality. Anyway, I digress.
Logitech G435 Lightspeed Other Features
We’ve already covered the lightweight aspect along with the reduced driver size. the G435 uses a USB-A 2.4 Ghz adapter for low-latency wireless connectivity. The headset can pair with a PC and PlayStation with wifi while using the adapter. For mobile devices, it will use Bluetooth.
The G435 Headset has dual “beamforming” mics inbuilt into the cans, that are supposed to eliminate the need of a boom mic. The mic also reduces background noise while amplifying the spoken voice.
The G435 headset comes in three colour variations: Black & Neon Yellow, Blue & Raspberry, and Off-White & Lilac.
The Logitech G435 Wireless Gaming Headset is available for sale at INR 7,495 on Amazon.in.
